00:12:33mircea_popescu:<ben_vulpes> funny how little google and duckduckgo claim to know about al hayat and the islamic state report << that is all a coincidence that has nothing at all to do with what you *should* be knowing.

00:15:33mircea_popescu:Dratel instead said that Ulbricht only ran Silk Road for ?a few months? after he created it. Finding it ?too stressful,? Ulbricht reportedly handed the website?s reins over to others. As a result, the defense argues that the government is prosecuting the wrong individual for building up a $1.2 billion black market, since Ulbricht is not Dread Pirate Roberts.

01:41:44ben_vulpes:with all the hoojum around wallets and the db, i can't help but suspect that all the state the reference client should really maintain in terms of db is a) block indices and b) unspent txout pool

01:59:59asciilifeform:'Her: If violence conquers all, even argument, why are you training me in logic instead of shooting? Me: You gotta be willing and able to stand for what you believe in. If you're not, you might as well be a rabbit. And if you recall I have on numerous occasions indicated that you must meet minimal standards of violence.' << interesting! :

02:00:11asciilifeform:does mircea_popescu have marksmanship standards for the gurlz ?

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05:03:22mircea_popescu:asciilifeform it's actually great, the sun of my childhood. back when i was a kid i loved the sun, but then something sort-of changed at some point, past decade or so i couldn't even look at the fucking sky in the daytime. i kinda untinkingly just figured it's... gone.

05:03:33mircea_popescu:got here, discovered that the exact thing i knew as a boy still exists.

05:03:43asciilifeform:mircea_popescu: aha, same! i assumed it was on account of moving to north a.

05:41:27mod6:left my memorzation of all the nuances of the shells in the past

05:42:22asciilifeform:not mentioned for the same reason sky being blue is rarely mentioned - abundantly clear that an atrocity like perl had to offer a mega-win to catch on (and it did genuinely, organically catch on)

06:20:17mircea_popescu:asciilifeform that book doesn't exist because o'reilly didn't publish it.

06:20:36asciilifeform:mircea_popescu: as (i think) i told jurov & co., it is my intention to eventually write this book. if live long enough.

06:20:38ben_vulpes:"Without such a tool you often end up greping through dozens or even hundreds of files." << yeah exactly. EXACTLY.

06:21:26*:mircea_popescu smiles at the original premise of the entire foss movement rebirthed. "by working on intelligent tasks with intelligent people you become more intelligent yourself. this is more important than money"

06:23:33asciilifeform:ben_vulpes: there are other, i think, similar proggies

06:23:40mircea_popescu:asciilifeform you're not going to die man. at the very most, you'll be set in a room for 30 years' stretch. at a time where you're old enough to not really miss women so much anymore, and old enough to really appreciate the stability of 3 regular, predictable meals a day.

06:25:19mircea_popescu:(and yes ftr /me is nonplussed with the idiotic idea of ambiguously calling everythning "plus". it creates the sort of idiots that imagines they can do statistics work because they can add integers on their fingers)

06:26:38mircea_popescu:im not a great fan of... whatever the fuck that was, german lumpenmodernism

06:27:54asciilifeform:not a titanic work of literature, but relevant. fella goes mad on account of getting locked up for a while with naught but a chess book.

06:28:58mircea_popescu:eh it's not how it works, unless fella's a little broken in the head.

06:30:15mircea_popescu:"Mr. [Patient] is a 39 year old gentleman who sustained several anterior dislocations of his right shoulder when he was involved in martial arts as part of an underground fighting group. He did not seek treatment for these and the problem worsened after he lifted heavy weights while in prison. He presents today with his caretaker, who states that because of his impulsive and self-destructive behavior secondary to bipol

06:30:15mircea_popescu:ar disorder with psychosis, it is difficult for him to follow any sort of treatment plan."

07:19:00mircea_popescu:The new government was received with considerable coolness. It was not only a foreign intruder, but a poor one. It was not even worth plucking?except by the smallest of small fry office-seekers and such. Everybody knew that Congress had appropriated only twenty thousand dollars a year in greenbacks for its support?about money enough to run a quartz mill a month. And everybody knew, also, that the first year's money

07:19:00mircea_popescu: was still in Washington, and that the getting hold of it would be a tedious and difficult process. Carson City was too wary and too wise to open up a credit account with the imported bantling with anything like indecent haste.

07:19:01mircea_popescu:There is something solemnly funny about the struggles of a new-born Territorial government to get a start in this world. Ours had a trying time of it. The Organic Act and the "instructions" from the State Department commanded that a legislature should be elected at such-and- such a time, and its sittings inaugurated at such-and-such a date. It was easy to get legislators, even at three dollars a day, although board was

07:19:07mircea_popescu: four dollars and fifty cents, for distinction has its charm in Nevada as well as elsewhere, and there were plenty of patriotic souls out of employment; but to get a legislative hall for them to meet in was another matter altogether. Carson blandly declined to give a room rent-free, or let one to the government on credit.

07:19:11mircea_popescu:the great old days when america worked as intended.

07:19:16mircea_popescu:it DID have greenbacks. but they were backed by gold.

07:19:56BingoBoingo:Birdman: Conditions of the bet actually happening tend to close the bet.

13:45:04jurov:<cazalla> i will be until a scream comes over the baby monitor that someone is awake and demands lunch << do you know babies prosper in skin-contact with parent, not away on baby monitor?

13:52:14cazalla:it's the crying that sends my blood pressure up, pass him off to missus when that happens

13:52:54cazalla:but then i cook all the meals, clean the house etc etc so you know, fair is fair

13:58:16cazalla:still trying to teach him sign language but i find, espeically this past month in lead up to his 1 year birthday, he mimics non hand gestures far more, like i jump around the loungeroom doing monkey noises and he copies the monkey noises, blow rasperries, open and close mouth, copys it straight away now, hand signals not so much yet

16:16:52cazalla:prior to gfc, i would give him advice (to be fair, throw a dart and you would strike gold) on asx

16:17:38cazalla:but then big fall out, he ignores me for 3 years despite my thinking i would die 2 years ago, continued to ignore me and as a result only finds bitcoin 6 months ago when we start talking again, now only has a few bitcoin to rub together, much satisifaction

16:25:17mircea_popescu:it's really shocking how stupid/clueless modern teenagers are as compared to what i used to fuck prior to the berlin wall falling. pretty much every basic point has to be re-established.

17:04:38TomServo:George also takes a pencil to the party because he thinks there will be a lot of dentists there and he wants to ask if they can compare the teeth marks on a pencil he found in the Jon Voight car to see if he really was the previous owner.

17:24:14mircea_popescu:cazalla: the minute some old fuck dies around here, their house is torn down and 6 more managed to fit where it once stood << haha. same across teh bezzleworld. and they cost 10x each, and no inflation since 1929.

17:24:30mircea_popescu:cazalla the joke was "australia is already the sticks itself,so..."

17:36:30mircea_popescu:<ben_vulpes> doesn't imply lots of slapping tho << from what i hear the way to educate them is to place them in the door and slam the door on em. that way they chew on the door. rather than on your intestines, while you sleep.

17:41:43ben_vulpes:mircea_popescu: i can't speak as to the quality of instruction or the milongas, but there's some sort of hustle involving procuring dollars in portland during the rainy season down south and then going down south to dance for the other six months

17:46:31mircea_popescu:"Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. We fell victims to the epidemic and strained every nerve to acquire more "feet." We prospected and took up new claims, put "notices" on them and gave them grandiloquent names. We traded some of our "feet" for "feet" in other people's claims. In a little while we owned largely in the "Gray Eagle," the "

17:46:31mircea_popescu:Columbiana," the "Branch Mint," the "Maria Jane," the "Universe," the "Root-Hog-or- Die," the "Samson and Delilah," the "Treasure Trove," the "Golconda," the "Sultana," the "Boomerang," the "Great Republic," the "Grand Mogul," and fifty other "mines" that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick. We had not less than thirty thousand "feet" apiece in the "richest mines on earth" as the frenzied cant

17:46:32mircea_popescu:phrased it?and were in debt to the butcher. We were stark mad with excitement?drunk with happiness?smothered under mountains of prospective wealth?arrogantly compassionate toward the plodding millions who knew not our marvellous canyon?but our credit was not good at the grocer's."

17:47:40mircea_popescu:"It was the strangest phase of life one can imagine. It was a beggars' revel. There was nothing doing in the district?no mining?no milling?no productive effort?no income?and not enough money in the entire camp to buy a corner lot in an eastern village, hardly; and yet a stranger would have supposed he was walking among bloated millionaires. Prospecting parties swarmed out of town with the first flush of dawn,

17:47:41mircea_popescu: and swarmed in again at nightfall laden with spoil?rocks. Nothing but rocks. Every man's pockets were full of them; the floor of his cabin was littered with them; they were disposed in labeled rows on his shelves."

17:49:57mircea_popescu:"I met men at every turn who owned from one thousand to thirty thousand "feet" in undeveloped silver mines, every single foot of which they believed would shortly be worth from fifty to a thousand dollars?and as often as any other way they were men who had not twenty-five dollars in the world. Every man you met had his new mine to boast of, and his "specimens" ready; and if the opportunity offered, he would infallibl

17:49:58mircea_popescu:y back you into a corner and offer as a favor to you, not to him, to part with just a few feet in the "Golden Age," or the "Sarah Jane," or some other unknown stack of croppings, for money enough to get a "square meal" with, as the phrase went. And you were never to reveal that he had made you the offer at such a ruinous price, for it was only out of friendship for you that he was willing to make the sacrifice."

19:10:23mircea_popescu:"All agreed that a camp fire was what would come nearest to saving us, now, and so we set about building it. We could find no matches, and so we tried to make shift with the pistols. Not a man in the party had ever tried to do such a thing before, but not a man in the party doubted that it could be done, and without any trouble?because every man in the party had read about it in books many a time and had naturally co

19:10:23mircea_popescu:me to believe it, with trusting simplicity, just as he had long ago accepted and believed that other common book-fraud about Indians and lost hunters making a fire by rubbing two dry sticks together."

19:36:16thestringpuller:ben_vulpes: well it's great for shipping (no pun intended)

19:38:05thestringpuller:mircea_popescu: i text a friend of mine, "That's (referring to owning technology without paying for it), even worse! You want nice things without paying for them!" And he responds, "the world needs nice things wihtout paying for them."

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20:38:18kakobrekla:>A man of 20 was jailed in Orleans for shouting "long live the Kalash[(nikov]" at police in a shopping centre

22:03:43ben_vulpes:thestringpuller: one of my favorite things about containerization is the ability to upgrade running production services with a minimum of hassle.

22:04:53ben_vulpes:for instance, i've got a client who (for some silly reasons) basically needs to throw out their Solr index on a daily basis. the approach to date has been to drop the index at a low-traffic time, rebuild, and hope nobody notices. with docker, we can boot a new container, index into it, and then when the indexing is complete, shut the old solr container down and boot the new solr container.

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22:43:13mod6:wonder what $MAX_PAIN will be set to before Fucky McFuckstick ends this charade.

23:40:53BingoBoingo:mircea_popescu: so i don't get that nascar drama. ex-trophy blondie applies for no contact order against her ex. ex swears she's an assassin out to get him. << Basically except... the assasin part seems... credible...

23:57:52mircea_popescu:<davout> the case kako was reporting about doesn't seem to have anything to do with jews <<< you don't see it because nose! it's a gentile^H^H^H^H redneck thing dub's on about. *we* understand.